Tasks listed with owner "unknown"

[lilkel31]

I posted a question about two weeks ago, trying to get help and haven't
received any responses, so I'm going to try posting again. I have Outlook
2003 and am using it for management of my home. When I create tasks, they
come up with the owner listed as "unknown" instead of me being able to change
the owner. How can I set it up so that I will be able to change the owner?
(That field on the new task creation pop-up screen is grayed out-unable to be
changed. When I try to change ownership from the task list it says "You must
be in a public folder to change the owner field of a task. The original
owner name will be restored. To assign the task, right-click the task and
then click Assign Task." So, when I right-click the task, there is no option
that says "assign task".)

 

[Roady [MVP]]

That is because you are not in an Exchange environment.

 

[lilkel31]

But I did have one task that I created and have since completed that has the
owner listed as me, not unknown. But only that one task. I created tasks
before it and after it, but only it has my name. I know I didn't change
anything to assign that task to myself, so why would one task have my name on
it and all the others have "unknown"? The task that actually has me as the
owner was created on 3/12. My hard drive had to be replaced after that, so I
thought maybe that had something to do with it, but I have two tasks created
on 2/26 that have "unknown" as the owner and no way to change it. So, if my
problem has to do with my "exchange environment" as you say and cannot be
corrected I'm assuming, then why is it that I had one task that was assigned
to me at all?

That is because you are not in an Exchange environment.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I posted a question about two weeks ago, trying to get help and haven't
received any responses, so I'm going to try posting again. I have Outlook
2003 and am using it for management of my home. When I create tasks, they
come up with the owner listed as "unknown" instead of me being able to
change
the owner. How can I set it up so that I will be able to change the
owner?
(That field on the new task creation pop-up screen is grayed out-unable to
be
changed. When I try to change ownership from the task list it says "You
must
be in a public folder to change the owner field of a task. The original
owner name will be restored. To assign the task, right-click the task and
then click Assign Task." So, when I right-click the task, there is no
option
that says "assign task".)